Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler
Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Eloquent, astute, nimble with history and deftly amusing, Travels in a Thin Country established Sara Wheeler as one of the very best travel writers in the world.
lively and sympathetic..Sara Wheeler is very well worth reading. - DAILY TELEGRAPHa perceptive and entertaining account. - NEW STATESMAN AND SOCIETYa thorougly enjoyable book with plenty of humour. - TODAYChance meetings and planned visits are described with enough imagery and dialogue to make you pack your rucksack before finishing the book. - NORTHERN ECHO
Sara Wheeler's books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, Chile: Travels in a Thin Country,Evia: An Island Apart and The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, which was chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers: Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton, and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in O My America! She lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349105840 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349105847 |
| Title | Travels in a Thin Country |
| Author | Sara Wheeler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1995-01-05 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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